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KPMG sounds alarm on admin fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... allows a review of the administrator's processes when they sign the contract. "When you're entering an agreement with the outsource provider, make sure that it has a clause in there giving you the right to request assurance around their auditors or a ...

Legalsuper reviews financial planning services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
The $1 billion-plus legalsuper is reviewing its financial planning services - including its relationship with Industry Funds Financial Planning - to boost member usage of the fund's advice offerings. Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of legalsuper, said ...

European and Japanese funds on the outer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Funds specialising in European or Japanese shares have shrunk as investors eye opportunities in emerging markets, according to a report. A review of regional equities by Standard & Poor's found the sector had fewer strategies available than the prior ...

AXA Asia Pacific taps SMSFs, restructures fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
AXA Asia Pacific makes a big push into the SMSFs sector, flags plans to remove all entry, exit and trail commission products from its APLs and unbundle advice fees from product fees on all of AXA's on-sale products. In an investor presentation today ...

Matrix tags NBG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Matrix Planning Solutions has secured a preferential mortgage aggregation arrangement with National Brokers Group (NBG). The partnership supports Matrix advisers with mortgage businesses by giving them access to NBG's lending rates as well as a preferential ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... superannuation schemes have not escaped ongoing governance reviews, with the schemes' administrator ComSuper mandated to outsource some of its work to cut taxpayer bill and the 'Commissioner for Superannuation' role dropped in favour of a chief executive. ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
The financial planning industry's worst nightmare is about to come true with the Ripoll Report recommending advisers become fiduciaries, payments from product providers to planners should cease and that ASIC significantly step up its shadow shopping ...

FPA calls for whistleblowers and more planner education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has set up a whistleblowing service and has flagged tougher educational requirements for people who want to become financial planners. Julie Berry, chair at FPA, said the FPA Confidential is an online ...

Super funds need to reset agenda: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... management tail still wags the super dog? I would have to say it looks like it." Cooper pointed out how most trustees still outsource their investment management activities, and how the industry continues to confuse the consumption of investment products ...

Adviser recruitment plagues super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... this service.There is also the dilemma of "overusage" and moral hazard, along with making the right decision whether to outsource the service, or bring it in-house, he argues. By and large, ASIC's decision in July to provide legislative relief to superannuation ...